– This is the poem I had on my blackout page yesterday. I decided to post it again for those of you who may have missed it and also because the protest may be over, but the bill is still in existence and that is unacceptable. My poem is applicable to this bill, but also to all other forms of censorship. As an avid reader, the banning of books has always been something that is especially wrong to me.

I was planning on choosing one quote as a representative for my feelings on censorship, but I could not choose, and here they all are:

“You can cage the singer but not the song.” ~Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 3 October 1988
“The paper burns, but the words fly away”. ~Akiba ben Joseph

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”

I love quotes and I love poetry, so I had an idea to combine the two. I hope to do more quote inspired poetry and perhaps even hold some contests in the future…….maybe…….I do encourage you to write words that the quote evokes from you, if any.